The sound of wings through
the half-covered woodland path--
the crows pursue me.
The air is so clear
that we see Venus plainly
well before sundown.
The truest beauty
is that which surrounds us but
we fail to discern.
The forms and colors
which adorn our daily life--
beauty near at hand.
The truest beauty
surrounds near at hand
but we fail to discern
these forms and colors
which adorn our daily life–
our fairest jewels.
A man ought not take
any more room in the world
after he is dead.
Corn-stalk-tops are stacked,
potatoes are being dug,
the season of fairs.
To-day if you are
not happy you will hardly
be so to-morrow.
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| September 18, 2017 |
In the forenoons I move into a chamber on the east side of the house, and so follow the sun round. It is agreeable to stand in a new relation to the sun. Journal, September 18, 1852
If you are not happy to-day you will hardly be so to-morrow. September 18, 1860
The cooler air is so clear that we see Venus plainly some time before sundown. September 18, 1858
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February 3, 1852 ("Venus is now like a little moon in the west,")
February 3, 1852("But the evening star is preparing to set, and I will return. Floundering through snow, sometimes up to my middle, my owl sounds hoo hoo hoo, ho-O")
February 3, 1852("But the evening star is preparing to set, and I will return. Floundering through snow, sometimes up to my middle, my owl sounds hoo hoo hoo, ho-O")
April 3, 1852 ("Venus is very bright now in the west, and Orion is there, too, now")
May 8, 1852 ("Venus is the evening star and the only star yet visible");
June 15, 1852 ("The evening star, multiplied by undulating water, is like bright sparks of fire continually ascending. ");
May 8, 1852 ("Venus is the evening star and the only star yet visible");
June 15, 1852 ("The evening star, multiplied by undulating water, is like bright sparks of fire continually ascending. ");
June 25, 1852 ("Moon half full. Fields dusky; the evening star and one other bright one near the moon. It is a cool but pretty still night. ")
June 28, 1852 ("Now it is starlight; perhaps that dark cloud in the west has concealed the evening star before.")
July 18, 1851(" If the sun rises on you slumbering, if you do not hear the morning cock-crow, if you do not witness the blushes of Aurora, if you are not acquainted with Venus as the morning star, what relation have you to wisdom and purity? ")
June 28, 1852 ("Now it is starlight; perhaps that dark cloud in the west has concealed the evening star before.")
July 18, 1851(" If the sun rises on you slumbering, if you do not hear the morning cock-crow, if you do not witness the blushes of Aurora, if you are not acquainted with Venus as the morning star, what relation have you to wisdom and purity? ")
December 23, 1851 ("I find that the evening star is shining brightly, and, beneath all, the west horizon is glowing red, — that dun atmosphere instead of clouds reflecting the sun, — and I detect, just above the horizon, the narrowest imaginable white sickle of the new moon")
December 27, 1851 ("Venus - I suppose it is - is now the evening star, and very bright she is immediately after sunset in the early twilight")
December 27, 1853 ("It is a true winter sunset, almost cloudless, clear, cold indigo-y along the horizon. The evening star is seen shining brightly, before the twilight has begun")
January 23, 1852 ("And the new moon and the evening star, close together, preside over the twilight scene”)
January 24, 1852 (“And now the crescent of the moon is seen, and her attendant star is farther off than last night.”)
February 3, 1852 ("The moon is nearly full tonight, and the moment is passed when the light in the east (i. e. of the moon) balances the light in the west. Venus is now like a little moon in the west,");
December 27, 1851 ("Venus - I suppose it is - is now the evening star, and very bright she is immediately after sunset in the early twilight")
December 27, 1853 ("It is a true winter sunset, almost cloudless, clear, cold indigo-y along the horizon. The evening star is seen shining brightly, before the twilight has begun")
January 23, 1852 ("And the new moon and the evening star, close together, preside over the twilight scene”)
January 24, 1852 (“And now the crescent of the moon is seen, and her attendant star is farther off than last night.”)
February 3, 1852 ("The moon is nearly full tonight, and the moment is passed when the light in the east (i. e. of the moon) balances the light in the west. Venus is now like a little moon in the west,");
A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality."
~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2020
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